Amal寫詩、熱愛藝術,但僅因為膚色他就被視為搗亂分子。富裕社區的一場悲劇,無辜的他被指稱為兇手送入監獄。藝術和文字將他拉出無盡的絕望與憤怒。他能否改變充滿歧視的社會,不讓悲劇發生在更多年輕黑人身上?From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. One of the most acclaimed YA novels of the year―this Walter Award–winning, New York Times and Indie bestseller is now available in paperback―a must-read for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo. The story that I thoughtwas my lifedidn’t start on the dayI was bornAmal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, because of a biased system, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated. Then, one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white.The story that I thinkwill be my lifestarts todaySuddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal is co